Lauralee Dukeshire HAS MOVEDOct 13, 2024
You've heard that "it takes a village to raise a child". Guess what killed "the village"?
It was capitalism. Capitalism killed "the village", forced people into cities, increased the cost of living such that most households require both parents to work (plus all the aunts, uncles and grandparents). Capitalism needs to be reined in (or replaced) if we want to rebuild "villages" of support and community. #capitalism #ItTakesAVillage #RebuildTheVillage
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/parenting-village-1.7347040
Sorry parents, but the village it takes to raise a child doesn't exist the way it once did | CBC News

The reality is that the concept of the traditional village that once supported parents in the raising of children — where extended families, communities and neighbours all lend a hand — is outdated for a number of reasons, according to many experts in the field. Yet the narrative about it persists.

CBC
Show threadAusirOct 14, 2024

@LauraleeDukeshire

Capitalism was still an improvement over feudalism which it replaced. As someone whose grandparents were starving peasants in pre-WW2 Poland and their grandparents literal serfs who were not even legally allowed to leave for cities, I'd rather not go back.

Show threadBrambleBearGrrrauling

@ausir @LauraleeDukeshire We don't have to go back. We can choose other, better options. It will be hard, very hard, to build them, but lots of people are already doing it.

#CooperationJackson
#SocialEcology
#Solarpunk

Oct 14, 2024 at 2:14pmWeb
Show threadAusirOct 14, 2024

@BrambleBearGrrrauwling @LauraleeDukeshire

Sure, but the linked story does tend to idealize "the village" and how things used to be. I'm not saying what we have now is great, just that life in "the village" was often far worse, and required not just both parents but also children to work in harrowing conditions.